Healing powers

"My shadows are for stealth more than anything. My mother could sense illnesses though." His mouth snapped shut as he realized he was talking to his enemy about his mother.

"Queen Mortala?"

"Yes," he hesitated to answer. “You heard of her?"

"I might not have paid attention to most of my studies, but I still learned more than most do. A princess still needs to know the names of her enemy even if she isn't the one plotting against them." Caliban let loose a gruff laugh at that.

"And yet I know next to nothing about the solen family. Mostly rumors."

"Like my father having a brood of children?" I snorted.

"Indeed, that is one I've heard."

"Well, it's just the five daughters. My mother passed in childbirth with the sixth, but that one would have been a boy." My chest ached at the memory and I wondered why I'd even said it in the first place.

"I'm sorry," Caliban's deep voice surprised me as he said that..

"No, you're not. The death of a Mithran queen is probably a cause for you to celebrat